Ground Zero Workers film documents their health care struggle - 06/29/05

"Never The Same : The Untold Story of the Ground Zero Workers" is a short film by Jonathon Levin documenting the adverse health effects on September 11th workers from exposure to a toxic cloud that day. The worker compensation response has been inadequate to care for workers like Thomas Hickey of Ironworkers Local 40 in New York.

[Thomas Hickey] : "Headaches all day, every day I got headaches. I can't breath. I never had asthma, never had allergies like that."

Jimmy Willis of TWU Local 100 in New York.

[Jimmy Willis] : "As a result of my time spent at Ground Zero I've been diagnosed with gastrointestinal disorders and lifelong respiratory disease. I am only one of many."